Word: soloed
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TIME's Man of the Year tradition began rather casually during a slow week at the end of 1927 when the magazine's editors didn't know whom to put on the cover. Recalling that they had shortchanged Lindbergh after he made the first solo crossing of the Atlantic earlier that year, they named him Man of the Year. The idea caught on, and among Lindy's successors have been such men as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill and such women as Wallis Simpson and Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
Organized roughly chronologically, the lyrics fall into four periods. During the first, with the Velvets, Reed tells stories about the Factory scene (the albums from VU and Nico to Loaded). In the second, the early solo years, Reed comes to terms with his family and drug problems (from Transformer to Legendary Hearts). During the third, he redirects his energies into brutally personalized social commentary (from New Sensations to New York). In the final period, Reed emphasizes reassessment and revaluation, which includes Songs for 'Drella, Magic and Loss (his new album), and this book...
From second one of the second act, the Dins covered the blushing audience with sweet a capella kisses. The opening number, "Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long," started the set off on an exhilarating note. The song's wit, the group's polish and Hoon Lee's fetching solo overflowed with excellence...
Standards such as "Istanbul" featured similarly tight ensembles and loose moods, as did "Route 66," even though Gavan Meehan's scatting sounded sickly. A daper Albert Hsia did great things for Cole Porter's great song, "Night and Day," and Peter Wardle's thick solo in "Body and Soul" earned high accolades from the gleeful Sanders masses...
Among the other bright spots of the evening were the James Bond medley--featuring one fiendishly memorable solo by Brian Martin in the theme song from "Goldfinger"--and the choreography for the one encore of the evening, "You Can Call Me Al"--which proved that the Dins can pat themselves like Ladysmith Black Mambazo...